Francis Whiteford

Francis Whiteford (1742-1807) was a colonel of the Continental Army.

Biography
Francis Whiteford was born in 1742 in Tappan, New York, and he served in the New York militia during the French and Indian War. Whiteford would be a candlemaker in the years between the French and Indian War in 1763 and the American Revolutionary War in 1776, and he became a colonel of a regiment of Continentals in 1776. Whiteford fought in the battles for New York, and he distinguished himself during the battle of Metuchen in November of that year. Afterwards, Whiteford was given regimental command in the army of George Washington, ending the war with him at Yorktown. He died in 1807 in New York City.